Basar בָּשָׂר

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Basar
בָּשָׂר
Transliterationbasar
Strong's numberH1320
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechmasculine noun
Glossflesh
Occurrences270 in 241 verses
Most frequent inLeviticus (51)

Basar (Hebrew בָּשָׂר, Strong's H1320) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “flesh”. It occurs 270 times in 241 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) flesh
1a) of the body
1a1) of humans
1a2) of animals
1b) the body itself
1c) male organ of generation (euphemism)
1d) kindred, blood-relations
1e) flesh as frail or erring (man against God)
1f) all living things
1g) animals
1h) mankind
Aramaic equivalent: be.shar (בְּשַׁר "flesh" H1321)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVflesh (256), kin (2), body (2), nakedness (1), skin (1), myself (1)
BSBflesh (54), meat (46), my flesh (9), body (9), himself (8), your flesh (7), creature (6), my body (6), his flesh (5), mankind (5), its flesh (4), people (4), and 50 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Basar, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Judges

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Nehemiah

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Ecclesiastes

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Ezekiel

Daniel

Hosea

Joel

Micah

Haggai

Zechariah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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